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Oscar

Oscar started dancing as a teenager in Guatemala City where he was born and enjoyed dancing any kind of rhythm.  He's gone from disco, merengue, soca, cumbia, and lambada to the to the rhythm that truly captured his heart: Salsa.
His extensive training in Salsa started with the Ottawa Salsa Legend: Ms. Helen Martin. Then continued learning more and more Salsa by traveling to other cities including New York, in order to upgrade his style and technique, followed by creating his own patterns, footwork and figures that have become very popular in the Ottawa area specially among Salsa Fever students.

He has attended to various Salsa Congresses held in Canada, United States and Puerto Rico, and taken workshops with great instructors like: Eddie Torres, Josie Neglia, Pedro Gomez, Felipe Polanco, Freddy Rios (The Palladium Mambo Legend), Edie the "Salsa Freak", Super Mario, Nelson Flores (the Mission Impossible footwork man)  and many others.
He has been competitively active for over 7 years and was the 1st. winner of the "Big Prize" Ottawa Salsa Competition at "La Isla" in November '98, 3rd place at "Jose Alberto (El Canario)" concert at Metropolis, Montreal in 1996; and 3rd. Place at the International Salsa Web Convention held in Toronto in 2000 behind (US Salsa dance champions) Ricardo Sanchez and Michelle Castro and a couple from "Caribbean Soul Dancers from N. Jersey". The last 4 years have been busy for Oscar; not only he's been teaching all levels at Salsa Fever Dance Studio; but he's also given numerous workshops at many of the local dance studios and clubs. Besides teaching, he found the time to perform in about 20 shows a year; he was one of the choreographers for Ottawa in Salsa Team Canada (this group performed in the World Salsa Congress in Puerto Rico in August 2002).
Over these years, Oscar has become an experienced performer, choreographer and an excellent teacher  whose method has shown rapid and efficient results.
In September of 1998, with the support of his friends and admirers, Oscar inaugurated Salsa Fever Dance Studio, which has been running since then. His goal is to communicate his passion of this amazing and contagious beat to people from Ottawa and surroundings and teach them how beautiful and entertaining it can be.

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